LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data)

From	Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Subject	LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data)
Date	2013-08-02 17:14 +1000
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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:

> […] rather than OO/LibreOffice. (I'll not distinguish those two. Far
> as I'm concerned, they're one product with two names.)

That's simply false. LibreOffice has, since the 2010 fork of the code
base and especially since the exodus of developers to The Document
Foundation [0], gained a great number of improvements [1] and is now the
clear inheritor of active development.

Oracle's behaviour (as holder of the OpenOffice trademark) shows they
have no interest in a free-software OpenOffice. Even Oracle Linux no
longer has OpenOffice, instead shipping LibreOffice [2].

Claiming they're the same product is ignoring the transfer of
development away from the OpenOffice.org code dump, and to LibreOffice
as the actively-developed product.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#History_after_the_establishment_of_The_Document_Foundation
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Release_history
[2] https://oss.oracle.com/ol6/docs/RELEASE-NOTES-U3-en.html

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Ben Finney

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Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-07-31 13:39 -0500
  Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-07-31 19:02 +0000
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-07-31 14:35 -0500
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-01 01:50 +0100
      Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-08-01 14:04 +0000
      Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-08-02 02:15 -0700
    Re: Editing tabular data Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-02 16:35 +1000
      Re: Editing tabular data rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 09:58 -0700
    LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-02 17:14 +1000
    Re: LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-02 10:37 +0100
      Re: LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data) Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-02 14:00 +0000
    Re: LibreOffice Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-02 21:26 -0400
    Re: LibreOffice David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com> - 2013-08-03 11:08 -0400
  Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk> - 2013-07-31 20:03 +0100
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-07-31 19:07 +0000
  Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Wanderer <wanderer@dialup4less.com> - 2013-07-31 13:37 -0700
    Re: Editing tabular data [was: PEP8 79 char max] Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2013-07-31 18:40 -0500

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